Sometimes You Just Have To Ignore Your Better Half How do you get started investing in real estate overseas? To borrow a page from Nike’s playbook... You just do it. You take the plunge. You can’t wait until you’re fully prepared and you know everything. Neither of those things will ever be true,…
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Buying Real Estate In Belize: What You Need To Know
How To Get The Best Deal On Your Property Purchase In Belize About 30 years ago, I was sitting at a palapa bar in…
After A Little Time Apart, Panama Feels More Like Home
On Coming Home To Panama "I don’t know if I should tell you guys this or not," began our 17-year-old son…
Navigating Your Legacy Planning, Probate, Taxes, And More
Four Things To Plan For Before Buying Property Overseas When I bought an apartment in Portugal two years ago,…
Cambodia Emerging As Southeast Asia’s Next Top Destination
3 Reasons To Consider This Emerging (And Remarkably Affordable) Asian Gem One destination in Southeast Asia…
Are Vietnam’s Real Estate Markets Asia’s Next Big Opportunity?
Interesting Plays (And Pitfalls) On The Vietnamese Real Estate Market Saigon, Vietnam, at sunrise. The…
Buying Property In Mexico: A Step-By-Step Guide For Expats
How To Buy Your New Home (Or Investment Property) In Mexico The purchase process for foreigners looking to buy real…
Sizing Up Your Options On Properties In Las Terrenas, DR
Las Terrenas: Upscale Caribbean Living At Reasonable Prices If you dream of owning a Caribbean home featuring a…
Cali, Colombia: An Urban Setting With Plenty Of Green Space
Your Own Home In This Friendly, Welcoming, Green City For $45,100 My workout over, I wipe my brow and walk over to…
Buying Property In Europe: Don’t Window-Shop, It’ll Cost You!
This Deal Stinks! How To Recognize A Bad Property Buy In Europe Over the past three weeks that I’ve been traveling…
Why Languedoc Is Perfect For This Gay Expat Couple In France
What Alex And Greg Like Best About Their New Life In The South Of France Alex and his partner Greg were in…
Buying Property In Languedoc: The Other “South Of France”
Your Dream French Country Life For As Little As 69,000 Euros It can change names as many times as it likes,…
Here’s Why Real Estate In Lisbon, Portugal, Has Our Attention
What Makes Kathleen And I Like This Euro-City Market As Much As We Do Wandering around Lisbon and its suburbs…
Portugal: The Golden Goose Of Residency And Real Estate
This Is One Bright And Shiny Market Portugal’s population density is greater than that of France or Spain, but it…
Find A Local Attorney Overseas Before All Else
Step #1. Get A Reliable And Trusted Attorney Your most important ally when buying, selling, or renting real estate…
My Dream Of Owning Property In Paris, France
Property Values Up And Other News From The City Of Light Lief and I have long agreed that, when we’re too old…
Paris Property Prices Rise And Fall But In the End… It’s Still Paris
Time To Buy In Paris Property prices in Paris are up. The entire city is worth 5.5% more today, on average, than…
How To Vet An Overseas Property Purchase (And Avoid Being Taken!)
An attendee at last week’s Offshore Wealth Summit asked for specific recommendations for how to carry out…
FAQs On Banking And Buying Property Overseas
Can You Get A Mortgage To Buy Property Overseas? At this week’s Offshore Wealth Summit, the three dozen…
Renting An Apartment Overseas
How To Rent Overseas Checklist The most important thing to understand about finding rental accommodation (short- or…
100% Organic Agricultural Investment Opportunity
Best Agricultural Investment Opp In Panama Won’t Be Available Much Longer As I remind you often, when you find a…
6 Options For Property Investing In Greece + A Big Bonus
How To Acquire Residency In Europe If Europe is on your list of places to explore, but you are worried you can’t…
Why You Should Be Considering Real Estate In Greece
Old World Property Bargains And Easy European Residency Its history dates back 4,000 years, its beaches are superb,…
9 Questions To Ask Before Ruling Out Planned Communities
Answer These 9 Questions Honestly Every year, I speak with hundreds of potential expats at events and get…
Why International Real Estate Investing Isn’t For Everybody
Cherif Should Never Buy Real Estate Overseas A reader sent this earlier this week: "Lief, I have seen a recent…
5 Rules For Renting A Home Overseas
Don’t Rent A Home Overseas Unless... If you’re moving overseas for fun rather than profit—that is, if your agenda…
My Top 3 Global Property Picks From This Year’s Summit
3 Favorite Overseas Property Investments Right Now I just got home from spending time in Panama for our annual…
The Best Pre-Construction Properties Panama Has To Offer
How To Earn Safe Returns In Panama Of As Much As 100% I spent last weekend in the United States, in Atlanta and…
7 Things To Know Before Building A House Overseas
7 Things to Know Before Building Your Dream Home in a Foreign Country… I’ve bought, sold, and renovated houses in…
Overseas Property Adventures From Ireland To Paris
Here’s How To Know When You’ve Found The Overseas Property Investment That’s Right For You "I’ve told the buyer…